Pregnancy advice from royal college not common sense, says health chief
Chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies says paper will increase anxiety and confusion about how to safeguard unborn child
Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life
Jonathan Jones: Artists have long been fascinated with the communicative power of the human face. As these scans show, babies begin experimenting with expressions even before they are born
Pregnant women have enough worries without adding sunscreen to the list
Linda Geddes: The latest advice may simply add to the anxiety that pregnant women must navigate, thus undermining public health messages
Another list of pregnancy don’ts. Another list that doesn’t help
Bibi van der Zee: Chemicals in household products are a real issue – but what are women meant to do with the confusing information in the RCOG report?
New advice to pregnant women is unhelpful and confusing, say critics
Anger over advice that mothers-to-be should avoid chemicals used in common products such as food packaging
How my molar pregnancy became a life-changing event
At first I assumed it was a virus, and then that I was expecting another child. But the truth was far more disturbing – and the start of a long and emotionally taxing battle
I discovered I had colon cancer while I was pregnant
At 31, Matilda Tristram was looking forward to having her first baby. Then she discovered she had cancer. Her comic chronicling the experience is raw, funny and still unfolding. Interview by Zoe Williams
Pregnant women are not the only smokers – tests are not the answer
Emer O’Toole: Asking pregnant women to take breath tests is patronising and fails to take into account that smoking is society’s issue too
Breath tests targeting smoking in pregnancy backed by midwives
Royal College of Midwives says tests could help show women the potential damage that smoking can cause to their baby
Alison Bigrigg obituary
Consultant gynaecologist who helped to transform sexual and reproductive health services in the UK